Today In History

May 4, 1889 — A difficulty occurred on the Massanutton Mountain at Spracker’s Spring, about 200 yards beyond the Page line last Monday, between two men, one named Kite and the other Higgs, both of […]

May 3, 1986 — A Rt. 3, Luray women escaped injury Monday evening when a bullet from a high-powered rifle passed through the roof of her house, bounced off the floor and grazed her head. […]

May 2, 1890 — The streets of Luray could not well be dustier than they were last week before the rain. Yet this is the way they will be all the summer, except of course […]

May 1, 1987 — When Sandra Collier calls auctions, it’s anything but tongue- in-cheek business. “A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk,” sing-singed Mrs. […]

April 30, 1964 — David D. Gray, boatswain’s mate first class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Gray, of Route 2, Stanley, is serving aboard the amphibious command ship USS Taconic, operating out of […]

April 29, 1891 — Thomas N. Miller, a young man aged 15 years, son of Mr. B.W. Miller, of Rileyville, this county, was killed by the train at that place last Sunday morning. In attempting […]